I like this. This needs to implemented on phone calls. Despite the “ban” on unsolicited phone calls if you’re on the do-not-call list, I still receive them from hvac and plumbing companies (“We’re on your street this week and have a tune up special”), Indian call centers, “surveys” and pseudocharities (the ones that send trucks around and sell donations in thrift stores, giving 1-5% to the contracted charity).

You get to pay a buck to call me unless I re-credit the call back to you. It will be like call return where you punch a code when the call is over.

#6 – doesn’t work from pure economics.
If your ISP charges you to receive mail that just makes the spam worse, if they charge to send email then it only takes one ISP somewhere in the world NOT to charge and they get every spam client.

I have a similar practice that i like to use on cold callers, although it will not make me any money.

as they usually read off a script, i simply tell them i don’t have a telephone and will have to discuss it with them at a later date. they have no idea how to respond,and i have not yet had one person tell me that i am in fact using a phone. They get confused, you hang up, they never call back.

You can also start explaining to them about the noagendashow project and if they would like to become a knight.

there are many creative ways to deal with these people (who are still humans – albeit hungry)and if you can amuse them and yourself at the same time, then at least you are not contributing to their suicide later that month.

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